Announcing UWP Community Toolkit 1.3

The UWP Community Toolkit continues to grow at a rapid speed thanks to the ideas and contributions from the community. Over the last period, over 82 percent of the contributions came from the developer community (59 contributors). Thank you!

Today, we are happy to announce the largest update to the toolkit since the launch a few months ago!

As a reminder, the toolkit can be used in any app (across PC, Xbox One, Mobile, HoloLens and Surface Hub devices) targeting Windows 10 November Update (10.0.10586) or above. The few features that rely on newer OS updates are clearly marked in the documentation and in the Sample App.

Here’s just a summary of what’s new in Version 1.3:

Controls. Several new controls were added in this release, including some very popular requests from the community:

WrapPanel. Positions child elements in sequential position from left to right or top to bottom, breaking content to the next line.

Expander. Provides an extendable container to show/hide any content by clicking the header.

AdvancedCollectionView: Builds upon CollectionView and easily sorts and filters collections before displaying them.

Loading control. Shows an animation with some content when the user should wait in some tasks of the app.

Services

OneDrive service. Roam user files through the new OneDrive service with a simplified API model (similar to StorageFolder). The new service makes it easy to authenticate OneDrive users and more in the same consistent way you have come to expect from the toolkit services.